Projects & Agreements
The London
Metal Exchange
selects
Interxion
London for
its Trading
Platform
Interxion has announced that
the London Metal Exchange
has expanded its footprint at
Interxion’s London data centre
campus with its newly upgraded
trading platform, LMEselect.
The London Metal Exchange
is the centre for global metals
trading, with the world’s largest
market in futures and options
contracts for base metals. The
majority of global base metals
business takes place on its
market, which last year equated
to $10.3 trillion notional, 3.5 billion
tonnes and 157 million lots.
Home to over 200 capital
markets participants including
industry-leading banks,
proprietary traders and hedge
funds, Interxion’s London data
centre campus is at the centre of
the European trading landscape,
making it a logical choice to locate
the primary LMEselect platform.
In addition to making
Interxion London the primary
production location of
LMEselect for base metals,
the exchange also listed its
new LMEprecious products
on this platform, when it
launched on 10th July 2017
(subject to regulatory approval).
LMEprecious responds to
market demand by making
available an innovative new suite
of exchange-traded, loco London
precious metals products.
For further information visit:
www.interxion.com and
www.lme.com
44 | August 2017
IT Service Provider Thekking Selects
Cohesity’s Efficient Web-Scale Data
Protection For Its Enterprise Customer Base
Thekking has selected Cohesity to considerably simplify its customer data protection and
improve its Service Level Agreement (SLA) and competitive offering. The Cohesity C2500
system provides data protection and disaster recovery services across two data centre
locations in Iceland for the company’s large VMware environments. The additional IOPs and
compute power of the Cohesity nodes have helped Thekking to better utilise key Veeam
features such as Instant VM Recovery and Virtual Lab.
The main challenge for Thekking was to find a solution that would improve deduplication
rates beyond what was provided by the existing Veeam solution and do so within the
boundaries of the budget constraints.
Recognising Cohesity’s ability to provide an infinitely scalable platform at an
affordable price, Thekking chose Cohesity’s secondary storage after considering several
deduplication appliances that were evaluated based on their ability to scale easily and
their simplicity of operation.
A proof of concept allowed Thekking to thoroughly vet the Cohesity technology. Ease
of setup, system stability, and instant node expansion of the cluster were key operational
requirements validated by the customer. Technological criteria of setting up Veeam copy jobs
to a Network File System (NFS) mount point were accomplished in a matter of minutes and
within an hour the first copy jobs were running. Finally, the deduplication was monitored to
ensure that the storage efficiency achieved would allow for a solid business case, which was
critical for the Thekking management.
For further information visit: www.thekking.is
Schneider Electric deploys modular edge
data centre at Infinity London campus
Schneider Electric has announced the final deployment phase of a modular edge data
centre solution for a leading global professional services company, at Infinity’s Romford
North data centre campus.
The new data centre will host a distributed cloud service which requires regional
edge data centres to meet real-time latency, high performance and data sovereignty
requirements. Ensuring consistency of design, delivery and service management
are key elements for lights-out, always-on infrastructure in multiple locations. The
Schneider Electric modular solution provides the highest levels of reliability and
efficiency in this application.
Schneider Electric’s standardised, factory engineered data centre modules
combine predictable performance with fast deployment, flexibility and scalability. The
collaboration with Infinity enables global enterprises to build, deploy and manage data
centre requirements in a Tier 4 UTI accredited site with 15MW of available IT capacity.
Infinity’s Romford North site is purpose built for high density, high performance
computing platforms and large scale cloud providers. As one of the most prestigious
data centres in Europe, it has 10,000m 2 of technical space and 15MW of highly resilient
net IT capacity expandable to 20MW. The data centre also offers carrier-neutral
connectivity, including BT Openreach, Colt, euNetworks, Level 3, Verizon, Virgin Media
and Zayo.
For further information visit: www.schneider-electric.com